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NZ’s Incarceration Problem Could Be Fixed By “Giving Māori the Keys”
We spoke to youth advocate Julia Whaipooti about what’s wrong with New Zealand’s justice system and what young people can do to change it.
Four of Australia's Five Most Over-Crowded Prisons Are in the One State
Queensland has the most overcrowded prison system in the country.
The Mass Incarceration Problem in America
The US has the largest prison population in the world with more than 2.4 million locked up in the country's prison system.
Mass Incarceration in America
The prison population in the US has more than quadrupled since 1980, a rise that is historically and internationally unprecedented. No state has been immune to America's mass incarceration experiment, making each an aberration worldwide.
Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
Many of America's prisons are run by for-profit corporations, so clearly some people are making lots and lots of money off the booming business of keeping human beings in cages. But who are these people? Using public data, I came up with some names.